Gypsy Rose Blanchard, the 81-year-old longtime panelist was quick to defend the 32-year-old, who was released from prison on Dec.
28.Blanchard pleaded guilty in 2016 to second-degree murder for acting with ex-boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn in the 2015 stabbing death of her abusive mother, Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard, and served more than seven years behind bars.“If there’s someone out there watching right now, please listen to me [and] heed my words that you are not alone in this situation, there are other ways out.
I did it the wrong way,” the author of the book “Release: Conversations on the Eve of Freedom,” 32, said on the January 5 broadcast of the morning show.At that moment, Behar replied, “No, no, no, don’t say that.
You had no choice,” seemingly implying that Gypsy Rose had to kill her mother. “I did. I did something wrong, and I paid my dues for it,” Gypsy Rose responded, before Behar realized what she implied with her previous statement.“Oh, you mean that part,” Behar said, laughing along with the studio audience. “Oh, yeah.